Aphid Olfaction

The aphid sense of smell is located in the antennae. By recording the responses of the antennae (electroantennograms) we measured the response profiles of different aphid species and now can tell what ...

Aphid Repellents

Aphids were tested in a simple but extremely effective olfactometer, the T-bar. They avoided a variety of plant odour components and essential oils. The repellent (-)-(R)-carvone acts on several aphid ...

This website presents three unpublished studies related to insect olfaction of plant odour. During my employment as insect physiologist at the Wageningen Agricultural University I did not find enough time to publish these studies. But l still felt obliged to share this information and, therefore, presented the unpublished studies on the website olfacts.nl (2010). In olfacts.com I have updated the website to WordPress. I hope you enjoy the new version. 🙂